Astounding Discovery: Day 15

Word Total: 90,009

Year to Date: 630,023

Summary of Events:
Chapter 29:
Adaire went to visit with the Sithneigh clan members and was told that he was actually a member of the Sithneigh clan, his great-grandfather having left O'Enne during a famine a hundred years before and settling in Beldonersteine
Chapter 30:
Saoirse went to the beach and talked with Adaire some more and learning that he was a part of the Sithneigh clan as she had thought he ought to be; and she offered for him to come and visit Caslteorghlynne.

Excerpt of the Day:
"Looking over at Saoirse's head resting on his shoulder, Adaire thought about her suggestion that maybe he go with her family to her town and maybe learn shepherding, or smithing, or goodness knew there'd probably be something else to learn.
It would be nice to be able to get to know her better, she was beautiful, and there was something about her, just  as she was even here and now, the way her head rested on his shoulder, her hand resting on his kilt, her bare feet swinging over the cliff's edge; nothing about this moment could be compared with the days he'd spent with Willa-Marie, or any of the other women he'd gotten to know over his voyage.
Saoirse had an attraction like O'Enne itself, but for what were completely different qualities, which was rather interesting, being as she was from the land that was so completely opposite.
O'Enne was rough, rugged, somewhat inhospitable — at least by appearance — it was a savage looking place that seemed to beckon to him with the offer of challenge and adventure.
Saoirse, on the other hand, was gentle, delicate, soft, beautiful, caring, she seemed to bolster his spirits, and she also seemed to be able to speak the comforting words he needed to hear, and if not, her touch made up for any lack.
Willa-Marie and the other women had been wonderful, they'd given him great pleasure, but there was something about Saoirse that — even though he hadn't done the same with Saoirse as he'd done with the others — seemed to surpass them.
Of course Adaire still ought to return home and at least notify his father that he was alive; but he could always let his father just give the Company to Jan too, being as he wasn't really interested in taking it over.
Adaire wasn't sure what to do; he looked over at Saoirse. Nothing said he had to do all of that right away, he could always just take his time and get to know Saoirse, find out what he was going to pursue in O'Enne, and the maybe later on go home and tell his father he was alive.
Saoirse shifted and pulled her legs up onto the ledge beside her, tossing her skirt over them to cover them and settled her head back against his shoulder, shifting it as if she were getting comfortable.
Looking down at Saoirse, Adaire looked beyond her to the Sithneigh tartan of the kilt. It seemed incredible to think he was actually O'Enneirey and not Beldonersteinois, but yet it also seemed right, Adaire still couldn't put words to it.
It was an astounding discovery, truly, to show up in a country he'd heard of, but never visited, and to discover that his forefathers had lived there for generations too many to count. But it felt right, too, even though Adaire had felt somewhat awkward and out of place in O'Enne, he felt like he belonged more here than he ever had in Beldonersteine."

The next post will be on June 29th.